README.md

Introduction And Motivation

This is a prototype for the Drumbeat Festival 2011 site.

Most Mozilla Drumbeat projects start off as wiki pages and evolve into websites once they get off the ground. However, turning them into scalable, production-ready websites takes a lot of time and it's often the case that there are barriers to making simple modifications to them.

The goal of this prototype is to explore the possibility of a "middle ground" between a wiki and a website, for situations when a wiki no longer fully suits a project's needs, but the project also doesn't have the resources or demand to host a full-blown website.

This simple prototype uses a project's existing wiki as a "back end" for a website. A very simple templating mechanism makes it easy for project participants to give the website its own look, feel, and functionality using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while the site's core content is drawn from existing wiki pages. This allows a project to extend and evolve its web presence into something that better serves the needs of a more diverse community.

Editing Files

If you're a designer, ask Atul for commit access to this repository. Once you have it, you can edit the template file and any static files by visiting them on github and clicking the "Edit this file" button. As soon as you commit your changes, the website is automatically updated.